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There is another angle to this situation. Sometimes because
of your blind faith and overconfidence on your children, you
are under the misconception that they are obeying you and
one day, suddenly when some unexpected mishap occurs, do
you then start despising this selfish world? Does your
attachment and affection decline? Do you still trust and love
everyone and every temporary material object? Don’t you
realise the false, deceptive and impractical nature of this world?

Futility of religious advices given to those blinded by love
and attachment.

In the Jain scripture ‘Updesh Ratnakara’, Munisunderji
Maharaj clearly states that those blinded by love and
attachment are unsuitable to follow religion and hence you
should refrain from giving them religious sermons and not

waste unnecessary time trying to make them follow religion.
Bhadrabahu Swami also suggests the same in his scripture
‘Avashyaha Niryukti’.

Check for yourself –

Haven’t you been cheated and misguided in this selfish world?
Haven’t your plans misfired? Or haven’t you faced insults?
Hasn’t something totally unpredictable and unimaginable even
occurred with you? Didn’t it incite and strengthen your non-

attachment towards this selfish world? Didn’t it inculcate hatred
and despise towards this world? If not, then are you intelligent
or illiterate? Wise or foolish?

Q. Renouncing the world at present seems impossible,

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